# necto
## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to nōdus (“knot”) and/or nassa (“a narrow-necked basket for catching fish”). The ending may be analogous to that found in plectō (“plait, weave, braid”) or pectō (“comb wool”).
The following roots and cognates have been proposed:
* Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”), making it cognate to Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”) (whence Modern English knot), and possibly Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “a jaw”).
* Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”), whence English net, Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬐𐬀- (naska-, “bundle”), Old Irish nascaid (“to bind”). This in turn is sometimes interpreted as being connected to Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (“spin, sew”), the root of Latin neō (“spin, weave”). The root of these forms has alternatively been reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *neh₃d-.
* Proto-Indo-European *h₁nedʰ- (“to tie together”) (alternatively reconstructed as *Hnadʰ- or *nedʰ-), whence (possibly) Sanskrit नह्यति (nahyati) and Proto-Germanic *nastijaną.
* Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”)
* Proto-Indo-European *h₁neǵʰ- (“to pierce”), the root of Old Church Slavonic ножь (nožĭ, “knife, dagger”), Proto-Slavic *nizati (“to string (to put (items) on a string)”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnek.toː/, [ˈnɛkt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnek.to/, [ˈnɛkt̪o]

### Verb

nectō (present infinitive nectere, perfect active nexī, supine nexum); third conjugation
* to connect, interweave, attach, unite; relate
    Synonyms: cōnectō, iungō, vinciō
* to bind, tie, fasten
    Synonyms: cōnectō, colligō, adalligō, cōnfīgō, cōnserō, dēligō, ligō, illigō, alligō, dēfīgō, fīgō, vinculō, dēstinō
    Antonyms: explicō, absolvō, dissolvō, solvō
* to bind by obligation, oblige, make liable
* to contrive, devise, compose, produce
    Synonym: dēdūcō

#### Conjugation

* The third principal part may be nexī or nexuī.

#### Derived terms

* adnectō, annectō
* circumnectō
* cōnectō
* innectō
* internectō
* nexibilis
* nexilis
* nexiō
* nexō
* nexum
* nexuōsus
* nexus
* subnectō

#### Related terms

* nexābundē
* nexilitās

### References

* 1 2 Per Persson (1912) Beiträge zur indogermanischen Wortforschung, page 815
* 1 2 J. P. Mallory, D. Q. Adams (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, page 234
* 1 2 Ranko Matasović (2017) “Latin presents in -t- and the etymologies of necto ‘to weave, bind’ and flecto ‘to bend, curve’”, in Pallas‎, volume 103, →DOI, pages 37-44
* 1 2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nectō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
* ↑ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 481

### Further reading

* “necto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “necto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* necto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.